Hiding Your Light Under A Bushel

After my very nice brunch last Saturday I headed round to Balmaha and played in the woods for a while. I found these teeny muchrooms growing on the underside of a log well off the beaten track, which was just as well really as I was lying on the ground, camera at peculiar angle on tripod, flash gun perched precariously on gorillapod, and camera kit strewn liberally around me!

It's the first time I've tried mushroom photography, so I've a long way to go I know! I used a 13mm extension tube on my 50mm 1.8 lens, off camera flash on E-TTL, f/8.0 at 1/25 sec.

[quote]unfortunately most of it is out-of-focus![/quote]
. . if a shallow D o F was what you wanted you certainly achieved it! as for focus? check out one of my favourites below
[Link=http://annemiehiele.nl/archive/category/2] Annemie Hiele [/link]
. . I'm not a shroom fancier, or much practiced in Macro but I don't find this offencive? ;)
ps. drove around that way on Sunday but the weather defeated me! . . so went to Tree Tops Inn

Quote:unfortunately most of it is out-of-focus!

. . if a shallow D o F was what you wanted you certainly achieved it! as for focus? check out one of my favourites below Annemie Hiele

. . I'm not a shroom fancier, or much practiced in Macro but I don't find this offencive?

ps. drove around that way on Sunday but the weather defeated me! . . so went to Tree Tops Inn

Thanks guys. No. as Mike has suggested, I wasn't aiming to get it all sharp - using extension tubes and a tripod, I really was only aiming for the bigger mushroom to be sharp.
Mike, sorry the weather defeated you, next time ;)

Thanks guys. No. as Mike has suggested, I wasn't aiming to get it all sharp - using extension tubes and a tripod, I really was only aiming for the bigger mushroom to be sharp.